Research Interests:

I use high-density scalp ERP, Human intracranial EEG, fMRI, and behavioral measures to investigate the neurophysiological mechanisms underlying object-recognition and multisensory integration effects on perception.

Pejman Sehatpour, MD, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Phone : (845) 398-2892
email :sehatpour@nki.rfmh.org

Current Projects

 

 

Publications

Abstracts and Posters

Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Higgins B., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Multisensory processing in humans: Intracranial evidence for early Auditory-Visual interactions in sensory cortices. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 18, San Francisco, USA.
Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Higgins B., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An integrative ERP-FMRI approach. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 19, San Francisco, USA.
Higgins B., Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Mehta S., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 19, San Francisco, USA.
Leitman D. I., Molholm S., Gomez-Ramirez M., Sehatpour P., Piesco J. R., Shpaner M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2004). Pre-attentive perception of speech like contour patterns: A mismatch negativity (MMN) study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 19, San Francisco, USA.
Sehatpour P., Zemon V. M., Molholm S., Higgins B., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11, New York, USA.
Saint-Amour D., Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Ross L., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Ritter W., & J.J. Foxe (2005). Multisensory mismatch negativity processes in temporal cortex: A human intracranial investigation of the McGurk illusion. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 10, NY, USA.
Piesco J. R., Molholm S., Sehatpour P., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Keeping in Touch with Your Visual System: A Visual-Somatosensory Multisensory Integration Study using high-density electrical mapping. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11, NY, USA.
Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Mehta A., Schwartz T. H., Shpaner M., Higgins B., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Auditory-Visual multisensory processing in parietal cortex: A human intracranial study. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 11, NY, USA.
Strugstad E. C., McCourt M., Pasieka W., Sehatpour P., Shpaner M., Zemon V., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Parvocellular and Magnocellular contributions to visuo-spatial attention: Line-bisection judgements evaluated with high-density electrical mapping. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 12, NY, USA.
Shpaner M., Sehatpour P., Hoptman M., Dias E., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Combined high-density electrophysiology and fMRI investigation: comparison of congenital prosopagnosic patient with healthy controls. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 12, NY, USA.
Higgins B., Mehta A., Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Schwartz T. H., Wylie G. R., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Task switching: An intracranial investigation in humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, April 12, NY, USA.
Leitman D. I., Foxe J. J., Hoptman M., Leavitt V., Sehatpour P., Kim D., Piesco J. R., & Javitt D. C. (2005). High Density Mapping of Visual P300 Deficits in Schizophrenia. International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.
Sehatpour, P., Molholm, S., Mehta, A., Schwartz, T., Dyke, J. P., Javitt, D. C., and Foxe, J. J. (2006) Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in Humans. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, CA, USA.
Papers
Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. (2006). Spatiotemporal Dynamics of human object recognition processing: An integrated high-density electrical mapping and functional imaging study of “closure” processes. Neuroimage, 29, 605-618.
Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Mehta A., Shpaner M., Gomez-Ramirez M., Dyke J. P., Schwartz T. H., & Foxe J. J. (2005). Auditory-Visual multisensory processing in parietal cortex: A human intracranial study. (Submitted)
Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Mehta A., Dyke J. P., Schwartz T. H., & Foxe J. J. A Human intracranial investigation of Perceptual closure processes. (in preparation).
Sehatpour P., Molholm S., Mehta A., Dyke J. P., Schwartz T. H., & Foxe J. J. Hippocampal involvement in Perceptual closure processes in Humans. (in preparation).
Sehatpour P., Gomez-Ramirez M., Molholm S., Ritter W., & Foxe J. J. Auditory-Somatosensory Multisensory Integration: An integrative ERP-FMRI approach. (in preparation).
Strugstad E. C., Sehatpour P., McCourt M., Javitt D. C., & Foxe J. J. Parvocellular and Magnocellular contributions to the C1 visual evoked potential component. (In Preparation).
Mahoney J.R., Molholm S., Sehatpour P., Ritter W., & Foxe, J. J. Multisensory Visual-Somatosensory Interactions in Early Sensory Processing: A high-density electrical mapping study. (In Preparation).
Talks and Presentations
Sehatpour, P., Zemon, V. M., Molholm, S., Mehta, A., Schwartz, T. H., Javitt, D.C., Foxe, J.J.  Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An intracranial investigation in humans.  Program No. 824.14. San Diego: Society for Neuroscience (SFN) 2004.
Sehatpour, P., Zemon, V. M., Molholm, S., Higgins B., Mehta, A., Schwartz, T. H., Javitt, D.C., Foxe, J.J. Perceptual closure processes during object recognition: An Integrative Investigation in Humans. Program No. 2438. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) May 03, 2005.